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Journey to the Ice Age: discovering an ancient world
By Peter L. Storck. 2004
Archaeologist's autobiographical account of fieldwork in Ontario that revealed early human settlements near the Great Lakes. Senior curator of the…
Royal Ontario Museum discusses his thirty-year career, including his study of stone-knapping techniques and painstaking work uncovering and correlating artifacts, and describes the challenges Paleo-Indians faced 11,500 years ago. 2004Mammoths and mastodons: titans of the Ice Age
By Cheryl Bardoe. 2010
Discusses what scientists have learned from the 2007 discovery in Siberia of a frozen baby woolly mammoth given the name…
Lyuba. Explains how research on fossil tusks, teeth, and droppings reveals differences between mammoths, mastodons, and modern elephants. For grades 4-7. 2010In the realm of hungry ghosts: close encounters with addiction
By Gabor Maté. 2010
Canadian doctor uses anecdotes from his Vancouver practice and clinical work to define and explain addiction. Discusses brain development, the…
role of personality, the social aspects of dependency, and the path to healing. Suggests compassionate treatment of victims and offers advice to families. Some strong language. 2010Erased: missing women, murdered wives
By Marilee Strong, Mark Powelson. 2008
Drawing upon her research of the Scott and Laci Peterson case, journalist Strong explores more than fifty similar murders she…
terms "eraser killings." Describes well-planned intimate-partner homicides that employed soft-kill methods and left no evidence to link the murderer to his victim. Some violence and some strong language. 2008Global warming and the dinosaurs: fossil discoveries at the poles
By Caroline Arnold, Laurie A. Caple. 2009
Discusses fossil evidence and scientific discoveries in Alaska, Canada, Siberia, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, and Patagonia showing that dinosaurs lived…
not just in warm, tropical places but also in the cold and seasonally dark environments of the polar circles. For grades 3-6. 2009In his sights: a true story of love and obsession
By Kate Brennan. 2008
Writing from a secret location, the author describes being stalked by her wealthy former lover Paul, who has pursued her…
for more than thirteen years. Details repeated moves and identity changes to escape Paul's harassment, which includes threatening calls, notes, and break-ins. Some strong language. 2008Women, food and God: an unexpected path to almost everything
By Geneen Roth. 2010
The author explains her philosophy that our relationship to food is inseparable from our core beliefs about being alive. Discusses…
ways to move beyond food and become spiritually in tune with the soul, a process that she contends will lead to natural weight loss. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2010Quicksand: HIV/AIDS in our lives
By Anonymous. 2009
The anonymous author, who had a relative with the illness, discusses the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its possible progression…
to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Answers common questions, describes emotional effects, provides medical information, and lists resources. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2009No speed limit: the highs and lows of meth (The Highs And Lows Of Meth Ser.)
By Frank Owen. 2008
Journalist examines the culture surrounding the manufacture, use, and trade of methamphetamine. Recounts interviews with addicts, "cooks," and dealers. Discusses…
the drug's origins and history--including military applications during World War II--and describes political and law-enforcement efforts to stop substance abuse. Some strong language. 2007Bizarre dinosaurs: some very strange creatures and why we think they got that way
By Christopher Sloan. 2008
Discusses the unusual features--giant beak, musical head, or wide muzzle--of eleven different dinosaurs and provides scientists' interpretations of the uses…
of these characteristics. Covers the 2006 discovery of a spiky skull that looked so nasty it was named Dracorex hogwartsia, meaning dragon king of Hogwarts. For grades K-3. 2008In the shadow of the mountain: A memoir of courage
By Silvia Vasquez-Lavado. 2022
"In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life—one brave step at a…
time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us."—Elizabeth Gilbert This audiobook is read by the author. "Complex and compelling, Vasquez-Lavado's quest to heal herself from the deep wounds of patriarchy is also a vibrantly feminist celebration of female resilience."— Kirkus Reviews "Making history is nothing new for adventurous mountaineer, explorer, entrepreneur, author, and activist Silvia Vasquez-Lavado."— Out Magazine Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising memoir following her journey to Mount Everest. A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child, she started climbing. Something about the brute force required for the ascent—the risk and spirit and sheer size of the mountains and death's close proximity—woke her up. She then took her biggest pain as a survivor to the biggest mountain: Everest. "The Mother of the World," as it's known in Nepal, allows few to reach her summit, but Silvia didn't go alone. She gathered a group of young female survivors and led them to base camp alongside her. It was never easy. At times hair-raising, nerve-racking, and always challenging, Silvia remembers the acute anxiety of leading a group of novice climbers to Everest's base, all the while coping with her own nerves of summiting. But, there were also moments of peace, joy, and healing with the strength of her fellow survivors and community propelling her forward. In the Shadow of the Mountain is a remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, an appetite for risk, and faith in our own resilience. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and CompanyTexans who spent their youth in an institution for "dependent and neglected" children reveal both the positive outcomes and the…
horrific abuses that resulted when a government-run "home" was allowed to operate for decades without any public oversightBurn down the ground: a memoir
By Kambri Crews. 2012
In this memoir, a daughter looks back on her unconventional childhood with deaf parents in rural Texas while trying to…
reconcile it to her present life, one in which her father is serving a twenty-year sentence in a maximum security prison. As a child, she wished that she had been born deaf so that she, too, could fully belong to the tight-knit deaf community that embraced her parents. Some violence and strong languageEl niño sin nombre: la lucha de un niño por sobrevivir
By Dave Pelzer, David J Pelzer. 1995
"El niño sin nombre" es el relato de uno de los casos de abuso infantil mas extremos en la historia…
de California. Es la historia de Dave Pelzer, quien era golpeado y hambreado salvajemente por su madre emocionalmente desequilibrada y alcoholica. BestsellerDinosaurs big and small (Let's-read-and-find-out science. Stage 1)
By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Lucia Washburn. 2002
ADHD nation: children, doctors, big pharma, and the making of an American epidemic
By Alan Schwarz. 2016
More than 1 in 7 American children get diagnosed with ADHD, three times what experts have said is appropriate. That…
means millions of kids are misdiagnosed and taking medications for a psychiatric condition they probably do not have. The numbers rise every year. Yet many experts and drug companies deny cause for concern. Alan Schwarz says that while ADHD is real, he urges America to address this growing national health crisisNothing good can come from this: Essays
By Kristi Coulter. 2018
Twelve steps and twelve traditions
By Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous World. 2014
Originally published in 1952, this classic book is used by Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) members and groups around the world. It…
lays out the principles by which A.A. members recover and by which the fellowship functions. The basic text clarifies the 12 Steps which constitute the A.A. way of life and the Traditions by which A.A. maintains its unityDr. Bob and the good oldtimers: a biography, with recollections of early A.A. in the Midwest
By Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. 1980
Dr. Bob, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill W., grew up in Vermont and became a hard-drinking college boy, then…
a medical student fighting the onset of his own alcoholism, a respected physician, a loving but increasingly unreliable family man, and at last a desperately ill drunk. Then he met Bill W., who urgently needed a fellow alcoholic to help him maintain his own sobriety. Dr. Bob's story soon became inextricably entwined with that of Alcoholics Anonymous: from a fledgling Fellowship to a powerful spiritual movement with a worldwide reach. Some strong languageNarcotics Anonymous
By Anonymous. 2008
This book contains the twelve steps or principles to recovery, the twelve traditions of NA, and an inspiring selection of…
personal stories written by men and women who are recovering from an addiction to drugs